Re: Metasearches

Kenny, > A good HTML parser may take monthes to create. Since the page > you get might not have good HTML style, which mean, a lot of tags > are not closed properly, your parser needs tolerate all that, and still > generate > useful indexes. A good one should take about 1 year to develop and > testing, and might only work with the pages that doesn't have > javascripts in the links. Thanks for making that clear for me. > Or, you can try to use the XML parser in the PHP to parse the HTML > pages. Again, since XML parser will halt if the input page is not > properly written, your parsing result might not be complete if the > page you have contains unclosed tags, miss placement of tags,...etc. > This parser doesn't work with the javascript too. But if you know > clearly about the structure of page you want to parse, you can use > ereg functions to extract part of the page that contains the data > you need, and then use XML parser to process this part of page > ( if it has good style), you might get what you wanted very quick. Do you have any resources on how can I learn Regular Expresions in a quick time (at lease faster time)? > By the way, you should also take a look at the robot standard > if you are trying to run a robot on someone's search engine or > webpages. I'll be reviewing this. Regards, Felipe G. Coury Gerente de Desenvolvimento Creation Internet Business http://www.creation.com.br -------------------------------------------- Visite o GuiaBrasil.Net: http://www.guiabrasil.net --------------------------------------------